MI5 has been named the UK's most LGBT-iendly employer - but isn't long sce beg gay was nsired synonymo wh treachery.
Contents:
- SO WHAT'S NEW ABOUT GAY SPI?
- THE ERA WHEN GAY SPI WERE FEARED
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
- SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
SO WHAT'S NEW ABOUT GAY SPI?
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"So the news last week that the secret servic have relaxed their ban on gays to attract recs om a broar sectn of the populatn - "MI5 brgs homosexuals back om the ld", as one headle put - is a ltle all spywatchers know, they have never been out there. Right om their formatn 1909, Bra's secret servic have been thick wh homosexual officers, as has the opposn. At the peak of the Cold War we had been so perated by gay agents workg for the Comtern that they privately referred to their spy rg as "the Homtern" Burgs, of Burgs and Maclean notoriety, was a proment Homtern member and such a dited homosexual that even the Rsians, pdish about such matters, had to provi him wh a boyiend after he fected to Mosw Anthony Blunt, an MI5 officer wh a fe war rerd, Keeper of the Queen's Pictur, a distant relative of hers, and an art historian of ternatnal renown, also had a secret gay life.
Alex Kellar, director of MI5's F Branch (Communist subversn) the mid-1960s, was homosexual, and there are doubts about the sexual orientatn of Sir Mrice Oldfield, who retired as chief of MI6 1978.
)The Rsians may have been pdish but that did not stop them employg homosexual agents to promise Wtern gays and then blackmail them.
THE ERA WHEN GAY SPI WERE FEARED
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So, stead of gettg himself off the hook, he found himself trapped by both sis - a ntributg factor his subsequent nervo breakdown and early terted the relatnship between spyg and gays sometim wonr if the very nature of the secret world attracts gays, who, until recently, had to lead secret liv themselv? The Irish wrer John Banville, a novel about Anthony Blunt (The Untouchable, published by Pidor) offers the theory that the i of the spy and the homosexual are almost intil. 46 Vlette Morris(French Athlete and Nazi Collaborator)Birthdate: April 18, 1893Sun Sign: AriBirthplace: Paris, FranceDied: April 26, 1944 47 John Vassall(Brish Civil Servant Who Spied for the Soviets)Birthdate: September 20, 1924Sun Sign: VirgoBirthplace: EnglandDied: November 18, 1996Brish civil servant John Vassall beme a Soviet spy after facg blackmail om the KGB, which threatened to reveal his homosexualy.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
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SEND HUNTER BIN IRS WHISTLEBLOWER INTIFIED AS GAY DEMOCRAT
Image source, Getty ImagMI5 has been named the UK's most gay-iendly employer - but isn't long sce same-sex relatnships were nsired a threat to natnal secury. "How to spot a possible homo, " ran a headle the paper.